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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

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Summary

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Date

01/01/1938

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Contributors

Lange, Dorothea, photographer

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Location

North Shafter, 35.51135, -119.28455

Google Map of 35.511347, -119.2845544

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html